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In a time of information overload – much of it contradictory or false, and coming at us at high speed – we need markers for identifying what is real for ourselves.
What we call intuition or insight – an “ah-hah” – is simply when the body, brain and mind all share the same reality.
What we call tension is actually chronic muscle contraction which results from thinking one way and feeling another.
…is a simple way to describe getting what you want, but each step has at least one slippery slope or stumbling block.
Integrated Awareness utilizes straightforward inner exploration of each of these three steps – revealing to ourselves the personal obstacles and hurdles before us and allowing the discovery of our own paths beyond them.
Let your body lead the way!
She could have been describing the current social divides we see all around us. What is mostly shared is what mostly separates us: Fear, blame, helplessness and loss.
What we often forget is that all of us were truly helpless for the first years of our lives and needed the care, support and fix-it of someone bigger and stronger. But what do we need now?
It’s traditional and fitting to remember and honor with extra focus each year those who have sacrificed for all of us on this Memorial Holiday – our military services, first responders, individual heroes and societal leaders in every field. May we always do so.
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – I could list a hundred more professions.
The world and the media
- social and conventional -
are so filled with messages of alarm that
it is easy to feel that we are all swimming upstream and that
everything else is falling downhill.
We live in unbalanced times – some would say to the point of unsane. Even those who avoid, or at least minimize, exposure to electronic media are powerfully effected by the currents in which we all swim together.
In political and social arenas, correct “posture” means having (or protraying) the right attitude. As individual humans it means upright on our skeletons (whether seated or standing), supported by our centers and balanced in our perspectives.
Persuasion and/or convincing will seldom produce this result.
“Our bodies retain all the innate and adaptive truths of our lives.
These memory experiences were encoded by movement, emotion, our many-more-than-five senses and our inborn reasons for living in the first place.”
Part of it is that unity of self is a challenge to generate in regards to change.
There are beginnings and “resolutions”, but they usually grow from,and often remain paired with, old losses or perceived failures – which sort of creates a paradoxical/oxymoronic condition.
We want to start the new, but that means leaving behind the old. We “resolve” to change but overlook the reality that resolution also means ending as well.
These patterns emerge from the fact that each of us has many voices, many conflicting desires, intentions and fears.
We will use movement in many forms and contexts to awaken a greater sense of freedom and safety.
Challenge, changes in perspective and the ability to appreciate progress already made are some of the defining elements. But what are the reliable trail markers that can let us know where we are now?
Ease of movement physically and energetically, excitement rather than fear at the prospect of change and a broader, enhanced sense of connection will be a great beginning.
Integrated Awareness is an innately human set of skills for healing and wholeness through movement, touch, enhanced awareness and changes of consciousness. We are each a complete person, but we often feel ourselves to be a collection of parts, any of which… Read more
Integrated Awareness offers three avocational stages of learning: Personal, Exploratory and Apprenticeship. These often begin with a mini-intensive...
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